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Pretty much every pro AI person I’ve ever spoken to IRL tells me this exact same story
Basically, “I used AI for a boilerplate task. It gives me the vibe of being capable of much more” but then nobody can ever really get it to do much more
Bro it will bro, it WILL just 5 more years and 3 more trillion bro i promise
Yeah i used it for a boilerplate task, and then I did not have to do that task. I was able to scan in hundreds of documents, and at the end I had a fully indexed, properly file named, summarized, and searchable PDF library. Just doing one document at a time manually would have been a multi hour task for me, and in a few hours I was done, and it was good enough to good.
Sorry, to clarify, a boilerplate task is not the repetitive job that you are automating. It’s the code that’s doing it.
What I’m saying is that you (and many others) are incorrectly attributing (your paragraph about the benefits your finished program is conferring to you) to AI, because that happens to be the path you took to arrive there.
In reality, the reason it was able to produce functional code is because your problem was already solved and documented. A few years ago, instead of “asking AI”, you would have simply copied and pasted the boilerplate code from someone else’s project. In all likelihood it also would have been faster for you to have done so
Quick edit: Sorry again, just want to further clarify that when I say “boilerplate task” I’m referring to a type of programing problem that you solve with “boilerplate code”. Reading back the above I was kind of using them interchangeably which is not strictly accurate
If I could have found the code, and copied it yes. Using AI means I did not have to search for it, did not need to learn Python, and then did not need to do the tasks.
Please understand I hate 90% of all the AI bullshit being forced on us, and employers requiring AI use is insane. I am just saying that blanked hate is short sighted because it is useful in some cases, and the number of cases keep going up as we improve things.
I could also use a dictionary to check my spelling, but having spell check enabled is just faster.
Right, and what I’m saying is that the ‘usefulness’ that people claim to have discovered is totally nonsensical because these problems have been solved for decades
exactly. It's people realizing what coding is for the first time because it's being shoved in our faces. Before all this (bought and paid for propaganda) publicity, your average dummy had no idea what code was or did.
Basically, the non-tech people who know nothing about coding or how computers work are now amazed because they (think they) discovered what coding is because of the AI hype.
Yes but now they are accessible to anyone.
Your perspective is actually completely backwards on this
This process has always been accessible to everyone. You’d google basically the same words you typed into your prompt and it would bring you directly to the same block of code that everybody uses.
AI on the other hand is currently temporarily being made available for free or low cost because they are actively trying to create a cohort of users who impulsively “just reach for AI” as their first step to solving every problem.
In a few years you may find yourself praising how “accessible” it is because they occasionally run offers for a week of subscription time for $40 instead of the usual rate of $189.99/mo for entry level access. You may find yourself wondering how people ever lived without it
I run most of my AI local on my GPU only on rare moments do I bother with commercial systems.
That’s cool, does that need to be updated periodically?
This is a few lines of python and tesseract, or one of the fancier OCR libraries based on neural networks (so, AI but not in the way it's used nowadays).
For sure but I don't know Python. I can edit a script but I'm not proficient enough to make a new one.
I understand that and good for you for finding a use case.
however a normal program could have done that exact same thing. It's just miniscule easier to do it how you did. Probably not repeatable though, or if your model you used gets the plug pulled, you're back to square 1.
Cant pull the plug, the model is local and running on my GPU. So I could break it if I wanted to but im not dependent on someone else.